Don Marolf

marolf (at) physics.ucsb.edu

A complete list of his research papers (from SLAC-SPIRES)

Don Marolf  studies the thermodynamics of black holes, issues associated with gravity and entropy, and gravitational aspects of string theory and supergravity. In this context, he is most interested in the classical and quantum physics of branes, especially in connection with the AdS/CFT conjecture and black hole physics. One of his most interesting recent results is that observers can disagree on the amount of entropy than an object carries into a black hole when it falls through the horizon. In particular, observers falling in with the object find the object to carry more entropy than do observers who remain outside the black hole. Click here for the paper with D. Minic and S. Ross. Marolf’s past work has addressed canonical approaches to quantum gravity, finite dimensional models, and certain algebraic approaches to quantum gravity which may be applicable to many theories of quantum gravity, independent of their underlying structure. Some of the most interesting results derived from this approach address the instanton approximation to quantum gravity. Marolf has also investigated spacetime singularities, the loop representation for quantum gravity, lower dimensional gravity, and issues related to diffeomorphism invariance. Marolf's research is supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant PHY-0354978.

Gravity at UCSB

UCSB Physics Department

My Notes on Relativity and Cosmology

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